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A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

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The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the sexually ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

If you've got a dodgy tummy, diarrhoea and have been vomiting, it's easy to blame a 'tummy bug' or 'off food'.

Closer to the shoulder, axolotls have higher levels of retinoic acid, and lower levels of the enzyme that breaks it down.

Most of the time they are killed by asphyxiation, either in open air or ice water. While this is a cost-effective way to kill fish en-mass, an international team of biologists, led by Cynthia ...

That rotation is important, and to understand why, we have to consider another animal that uses the stars as a guide: the ...

In additional experiments, the same bacterial fragment blocked the aggregation of IAPP (a protein involved in type 2 diabetes ...

Spotting cancer early can significantly improve the chances of recovery, and US researchers have shown that blood biomarkers ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...